Chapter 232: Door and Relic

"Low temperature below freezing can better preserve the liquid."

The priest said to Xia De while shaking the test tube. Then he showed Xia De his "refrigerator" located in this basement. It was a metal box wrapped in quilts, straw, and canvas. Ice cubes were placed inside the box, and the ice cubes were hollowed out to place potions or herbs that must be stored at low temperatures.

The old priest just lifted it and let Xia De take a look. The cold air hadn't even surged out before it was immediately covered by the priest:

"Ice cubes in Tobesk in summer are very expensive, and this is from..."

The old priest rarely blushed:

"It was taken out from the loss of the church. So, the School of Chemistry at Saint Byrons is very expensive. You can't learn it without money."

But Xia De didn't need to worry about the storage problem of potions. His house was very large, and there was plenty of spare space at home. After learning about these things from the priest, he planned to transform part of the basement into an ice room. Although he couldn't make ice, he could make snow and could control the size of the snowfall.

It was just that he had to be careful about the curious cat breaking into the ice room. Although it was cowardly outside, it was very curious about the things at home.

Besides the extract, Xia De also handed over several ores and some liquids with labels he brought back from Coldwater Port City to Priest Ao Gu Si for identification (Note).

It was a pity that most of those things had no value. The warehouse dispatcher didn't have the means to identify Ringed Shushi materials. The most valuable was a silver ore the size of a fist, which was worth about 12 pounds.

Xia De only wanted 11 pounds and sold the whole pile of things to the priest, which could be considered thanking the priest for helping to make the extract diluent for free.

He would definitely come to trouble the priest again in the future, so the account had to be calculated clearly, but it didn't have to be calculated too clearly. This could also be considered a small insight of the outlander on how to conduct himself in society.

Priest Ao Gu Si certainly didn't want to take advantage of Xia De. After pushing back for a while, he finally accepted it. However, if this batch of materials was sold and earned a lot, he planned to donate part of the extra money to the church:

"Mr. Dawn will bless us."

The priest drew the holy emblem on his chest very devoutly and told Xia De that repeating any oracle or words spoken by God, plus the action of drawing the holy emblem, could constitute the most basic "prayer ritual" in the divine ritual. This was learning content that the Academy Ringed Shushi wouldn't come into contact with.

After saying goodbye to the priest, it was only ten o'clock in the morning. Estimating that the reply to the express letter shouldn't have arrived yet, he stopped by the old pawnshop of Old John.

There were actually guests in the shop when he entered the door, fortunately just ordinary people. Xia De pretended to be curious and wandered around the shop, carefully observing the pawned goods on the shelves that looked like garbage but seemed to have some value.

This place accepted almost anything. If Xia De wasn't prepared to buy some new furniture to fill the empty rooms when he had time, he could completely buy old goods from here at a very low price and pull them home.

He walked to the counter only after the guest left.

"The relic you asked me to help find still needs to wait for a period of time. That kind of requirement is not easy to find."

Old John's first sentence was this.

"It doesn't matter, and you can increase the price. Now that there is money in hand, you can increase the acquisition price to 200 pounds."

Xia De said, and Old John nodded to indicate that he had remembered it. He was busy bookkeeping. He just spent 3 pounds to buy a pipe from a down-and-out middle-aged man, which was said to be an antique:

"I saw you in the newspaper. 200 pounds is the reward money given to you by the Ridgewich Field? When did they become so generous? I thought they would give you 100 pounds at most. Oh, also, what is the private gratitude given to you by the royal family?"

He looked up and smiled at Xia De:

"If you don't mind, take it out and let me see the world. I can help you estimate the price."

"The Queen gave me a ruby ring. Bring it over next time. I came here this time for two things."

Xia De stretched out two fingers:

"First, I want an ordinary item, a door that can be used as a pendant? Made of metal, it needs to be small, and the door itself must have a keyhole, and it can be pushed open."

"What are you going to do..."

Old John was stunned, then looked at Xia De in surprise:

"Last time you bought a time key... Oh, this idea of yours is really interesting, interesting, wait, I'll go find it for you."

Xia De looking for such a pendant was naturally for the 【Time Key】. The next usable time for the key was Thursday dawn, while the time to act with the two ladies was Thursday night.

Entering the second trip in advance and obtaining power before the battle was of course good. But if he kept the key and entered the past time at a critical moment to give himself some breathing room, and even obtain power in a targeted manner from the past, this seemed not bad either.

Xia De was considering this problem while swimming underwater yesterday, and finally decided to keep the opportunity to use the key until Thursday night. It was good to enter in advance and encounter no solution to the trouble, but at least there was a chance to fight for luck. And entering in advance, he didn't know what he needed to prepare at all.

But if he wanted to use the 【Time Key】 in battle, a new problem arose, which was that there might not be a door around when fighting the Silver-Eyed One.

The 【Time Key】's judgment on the door was very loose. As long as it was a door, had a keyhole, and could be pushed open, it didn't limit the style and size of the door, and the key could automatically match the keyhole. That was why Xia De thought of getting a door-shaped pendant.

But the book didn't mention whether such a door could work, so he still had to experiment.

Old John was also very interested in Xia De's whimsical ideas and soon found what he wanted from the sundries he recycled.

The pendant material was pure metal, and the pendant itself was a door. The craftsman with superb skills used bearings and nuts to make that small door able to be pushed open. The door frame and the door body were stuck together with magnets, so there was no need to worry about the door being opened by shaking.

The keyhole was only the size of a needle eye. Looking at the light, he could find that the keyhole penetrated both sides of the door, which was a transparent structure.

"Come and try it quickly."

Old John urged. He just liked this kind of fresh idea.

Xia De held the door in the palm of his left hand, then took out the time key he bought last time from his pocket. He pressed the key against the door, only to find that the key itself was almost bigger than the door.

But with a light poke, the key actually really "entered" the keyhole the size of a needle eye. And the part that didn't enter still maintained its normal size.

Xia De continued to push the key inward until only the key handle was exposed.

Old John raised his eyebrows and smiled. Xia De whispered:

"May the Father of the Infinite Tree protect me in time."

After chanting, he turned it gently. Sure enough, because the time hadn't arrived, it couldn't be turned, but this itself represented the success of Xia De's attempt.

"Interesting, really interesting. I really didn't think of it before. The 【Time Key】 can actually be used like this."

Old John said with a smile on his face, and let Xia De try from the other side of the door. The key could still be inserted.

This kind of novel idea wasn't actually complicated. People in the past hadn't thought of it, probably because those who entered the past time had never thought of treating the past journey as a resting point.

If Xia De hadn't been forced by the pressure of reality, he would also want to enter the past time in a stable environment.

"I want this pendant. How much is it?"

Xia De didn't even let the other party wrap the pendant, but after confirming there was no rust on the surface, he hung it directly around his neck.

"It's free, given to you for free."

Old John shook his head.

"Why are you so generous this time?"

Xia De asked suspiciously. This didn't look like the other party's performance.

"First of all, what kind of person do you think I am?"

The old man looked up slightly, not giving Xia De a chance to answer this question:

"The idea you just proposed is enough to pay the price."

"Anything else?"

Xia De asked again.

The pawnshop owner looked at him and smiled:

"Don't you still have one thing? Then, what else do you want to buy? I can give you a good price."

He twisted his fingers at Xia De. This kind of performance of Old John was right.

Xia De, who was standing in front of the counter, sighed:

"Alright, you probably have a chance to slaughter me fiercely this time. I want to buy an offensive 【Relic】 that can be used by low-ring Ringed Shushi and has a relatively weak negative characteristic effect. I can take out 350 pounds of cash here."

Except for the money reserved for dealing with emergencies, he could be considered to have taken out most of his savings. But since he was going to have a decisive battle with the Silver-Eyed One, there was no reason to keep a large sum of money without using it.

Although Xia De was stingy, he also knew that some money couldn't be saved.

"What are you going to do?"

Old John asked in surprise. People who had lived for a long time had more experience and looked at things more directly:

"Based on my understanding of your finances, even if you earned a sum, you shouldn't spend money like this... Are you going to fight someone?"

"Almost, so I lack a handy weapon. I know that truly powerful relics can't be bought for 300 pounds. I have a few Luo De Pai here, which can be temporarily mortgaged to you. The appraisal certificates are all there, so don't worry about them being fakes."

He was about to take out the cards, but was immediately stopped by Old John. The old man shook his head and said:

"Do you think relics with small negative characteristics and strong positive characteristics are everywhere? If you want them, I can't take them out immediately. Even if I could take them out, you definitely couldn't afford them. Why don't you tell me what the person you want to deal with is good at, and I can find you some cheaper targeted relics."

After hesitating for a while, Old John persuaded again:

"Young people still have to know how to endure and don't always think about dueling with others. You are only one ring, and you shouldn't get involved in dangerous things at will."

"But this time I must go on a trip. As for the opponent... sorry, I can't say more, but the other party is seriously injured, so I think it should be no problem."

"Young people nowadays are really..."

The old man sighed, then walked out of the counter and left the antique shop through the back door.

Xia De waited for a full twenty minutes before Old John came back holding a gray wooden box. This box looked like it had been around for some years. Old John let Xia De hide away, and he blew on the box, and the floating dust drifted away immediately.

After the dust settled, he opened the box and pushed it to Xia De. Inside was a golden candle, to be exact, a candle stub. It was the thickness of a fountain pen, and perhaps it was originally very long, but now there was less than a thumb's length left. ===== CHAPTER 233 =====